[quote=@Tatterdemalion]"That means use a cross and pray to the saints," she yells at Dominus, keeping Witcherphim off balance with a hellish and high-intensity barrage. "And-- [i]dios mio,[/i] don't let her-- yeah, she's going to try and crush your windpipe--"

She summons up another sword, because Witcherphim's right that these absolutely rule, and "tosses" it into Dominus's hands. Now she's sustaining a sword and pinning down Witcherphim and making it look easy, but if literally one more thing distracts her it's all going to fall apart like a house of cards.

[[b]10[/b] on Directly Engage. I want to [i]create an opportunity[/i] for Dominus to banish the good Catholic vampire and [i]impress, surprise, or frighten[/i] these two, and hopefully the @SARAHPHIM Nation converging on our Sara's head. I am cool with taking a few blows, so do your worst.][/quote]

The average person off the street might be able to brandish a crucifix and quote a movie preacher. It takes a history nerd as serious as Dominus to do so in the original Latin. And she's got some lungs on her! It reminds you of that time Father Dessiter hit his thumb with a hammer when repairing one of the pews. 

You're going toe-to-toe with the tiger-eyed mutant and the trade starts to get bloody quick. The swords last for a while but you can tell they're not where your advantage is so you wrap them around each other, scatter them both to the floor, and follow up with an open hand chop to the neck. She staggers and switches to a boxing stance - and hits you back. She's shockingly strong and trained in these bare knuckle bouts. The punches start going back and forth but Dominus' shouting is reaching a crescendo and with a WRRRRYYYYY and whoosh of cape, Sarampire turns and flies for a dark shadow... and Witcherphim turns her head to look.

You've taken a beating, but this is your opening. Finish her. And then Take a Powerful Blow to see how rough the fight was.

*

Angel-IKA: Dominus? You speak Latin? o.o
Locker: u don't?
Angel-IKA: Uh it never came up in school
Bode: Why would she need to speak latin?
Locker: why are yo asking that can you not see the vampire
Ferraphim1tp: Just run it through a translator :)
Locker: that's not how ecorixms work ur all gonna die 

[quote=@Phoe]But she! She can't! If it means one less body in front of her, what does it matter what happens to hers? What does it... what does it matter?

[i]A good soldier follows her orders.[/i]

She has no idea what's carrying her right now. Her legs twist around underneath her and she spins on the balls of her feet to leap for the exit yet again. She's leaving him! She's leaving him!

Because she trusts her Commander. 

Back into the corridor. Back into the labyrinth. Her visor clicks back down and her eyes scan frantically for angles she hasn't considered yet. It's time for another Pop Quiz.

[i]You are a good soldier, Ms. Kim.[/i][/quote]

You tear past staff who drop sheafs of documents or tablets and snatch for their sidearms. By the time they've got them out of their holsters you're gone. Miserable effort. Commander Warren would be having words with them later.

The first person in your path is Maria.

She's powered up and ready to go, like she was expecting this. There's no subtlety, no grace to her interception - she charges at you like a freight train with a massive two-handed broadsword, infrastructure for cutting a TAG in half. Acceleration thrusters fire from her feet as she charges - not the manoeuvrable wall-hopping grace you are spec'd for but the thrust of a cruise missile. 

[quote=@Balmas]"Yikes. Yeah, that's, uh. That's bad. I mean, it'd only put the entire city solidly in control of the woman who punched me through three walls, so... yeah. Let's avoid that." Hmm. Maybe contact Mami and see if she can figure out a counter-drug? No. She's still being monitored. Bode? Solid maybe, if he'd bother to step out of his invisibility cloak for like two seconds after dragging him into the public circle.

"Also explains the orange mist." He pauses as if slapped, then turns to stare at Locker. "Will they won't they? Between Angelica and Dominus? I admit I've not kept up on the stream, but is that really a thing? Never mind, don't answer, not immediately pressing, focus on preventing another corporate merger. Gimme more deets; is Spiral Corp a new subbranch of AEGIS? How much time do we have?"[/quote]

"Why are all you people devoting valuable crime fighting time to wondering who wants to bang who?" said Locker. "I don't have much information and we don't have much time. Ferraphim's working the backend, Bode is being mysterious but I think she's around here somewhere. Collab with them, let me know what you find."

He immediately heads off to the commentator's booth. You've got a minute to assess the situation and figure out how to seven samurai in the face of a wave of kidnappers. What's your methodology, Victor?